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Fundamental standards of humanity

Emily Crawford (Sydney): Road to Nowhere? The Future for a Declaration on Fundamental Standards of Humanity. Adrien K. Wing (Iowa): Conceptualizing Global Substantive Justice in the Age of Obama. From the International Peace Institute, a policy paper on the UN Security Council and the Responsibility to Protect: Policy, Process, and Practice. Marco Roscini (Westminster): The United Nations Security Council and the Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law. All the frogs croak before a storm: Dostoevsky versus Tolstoy on humanitarian interventions. A review of Armed Humanitarians: The Rise of the Nation Builders by Nathan Hodge (and more). From Counterpunch, Anthony DiMaggio on the myth of humanitarian catastrophe; and do we really need an International Criminal Court? Diana Johnstone wants to know. How to punish collective agents: Anne Schwenkenbecher on non-compliance with moral duties by states. "The oppressed have no obligation to follow the rules of the game": An interview with Ashis Nandy of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. A review of Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide by Claudia Card. Perry S. Bechky (Seattle): Lemkin’s Situation: Toward a Rhetorical Understanding of Genocide. Noam Schimmel on remembering the survivors of genocide in Rwanda. “Never Again,” again and again: David Rieff on the persistence of genocide. Gideon John Boas (Monash): Trying Tyrants for Mass Atrocity. A review of International Criminal Law and Philosophy. David J. Luban (Georgetown): Hannah Arendt as a Theorist of International Criminal Law. Ansel J. Halliburton (UC-Davis): Pirates Versus Mercenaries: Purely Private Transnational Violence at the Margins of International Law. James Kraska (NWC): Sovereignty at Sea; Freakonomics of Maritime Piracy; and The Co-operative Strategy and the Pirates of the Gulf of Aden.